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Building very big taxonomies is a laborious task vulnerable to errors and management/scalability deficiencies. FASTAXON is a system for building very big taxonomies in a quick, flexible and scalable manner that is based on the faceted classification paradigm [4] and the Compound Term Composition Algebra [5]. We sketch the architecture and the functioning of this system and we report our experiences from using this system in real applications.
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XFML: eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language, http://www.xfml.org
XFML+CAMEL:Compound term composition Algebraically-Motivated Expression Language, http://www.csi.forth.gr/markup/xfml+camel
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Tzitzikas, Y. et al. (2004). FASTAXON: A System for FAST (and Faceted) TAXONomy Design. In: Atzeni, P., Chu, W., Lu, H., Zhou, S., Ling, TW. (eds) Conceptual Modeling – ER 2004. ER 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30464-7_66
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